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Re: [Ietf-languages] Language tag for Han pinyin

Mark Davis ☕️ <mark@macchiato.com> Sat, 28 May 2022 02:01 UTC

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From: Mark Davis ☕️ <mark@macchiato.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 19:01:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Language tag for Han pinyin
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It is safer to use zh-Latn-pinyin, because a lot of implementations ignore
the variants.

Mark (📱)

On Fri, May 27, 2022, 16:55 John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 6:26 PM Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham=
> 40ntlworld.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>
> In accordance with BCP 47, is the complete tag "cmn-Latn-pinyin"
>> supposed to be suitable for Mandarin in Han pinyin?
>
>
> Yes, that is suitable.
>
>> My qualm is that
>> the variant tag should have prefix "zh-Latn" when used for Chinese,
>>
>
> Prefixes associated with a variant subtag are permissive and informative
> only.
>
> which suggests, contrary to other recommendations, that one should
>> rather use "zh-cmn-Latn-pinyin".  Do we perhaps need to add another
>> prefix to this and similar variants?
>>
>
> We could add "cmn" and "cmn-Latn" as prefixes, yes, but we are not
> required to do so.
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